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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
Hawthorne Bridge and downtown, Portland
PortlandHawthorne Bridge and downtown

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Portland by Cacophony, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Buenos Aires or Portland?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Buenos Aires for

  • nightlife
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Buenos Aires’s own page.

Choose Portland for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Portland’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Buenos Aires 7, Portland 20: Portland leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Portland 68: Buenos Aires leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Portland 38: Buenos Aires leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Portland 52: Buenos Aires leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Portland 84: Portland leads by 46 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Portland 58: Buenos Aires leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Portland 55: Portland leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires and Portland are level on 62.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Portland 52: Buenos Aires leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Portland 38: Buenos Aires leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Portland 55: Buenos Aires leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Portland 42: Portland leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Portland.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Buenos Aires
Best match
57match

Wins on nightlife and culture and sights with your weighting.

Portland
52match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Buenos Aires in July

15 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
50 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
13 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Portland in July

27 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Buenos AiresPortland

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresPortland
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911911
Elevation25 m152 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresPortland
City population3,121,707652,503
People per km²15,3551,736
Museums within 10 km7617
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months-

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.